The Idaho National Laboratory has an opening for a Postdoctoral Appointee in the area of laser-based characterization of mechanical and thermal properties.  This position is co-sponsored by the Fuel Cycle Research and Development program and the Center for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuel.  The candidate must have completed a PhD degree in Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical engineering or a related field.  The candidate should have a strong background in the development of continuum based models and/or a strong background in optics.  The main objective of this proje

For those of you looking for FSI simulation on Abaqus platform, recently Simulia has announced the new features in release 6.10, which introduces the capability for performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation.
So it enables users to perform coupled physics simulations with
Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit, such as fluid-structure
interaction between human tissue, a medical device, and fluid flow, more information:

http://www.simulia.com/news/pr_100524_DSS.html

Two uniquely exciting positions are available at IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON on domain specific languages for computational mechanics applications:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/computing/situations-vacant#3



http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/computing/situations-vacant#2

I believe this could be of high interest to our community. 

 Best regards from Cardiff,

Several PhD research positions are currently open in the Computational Nanomechanics Group at the University of Pittsburgh for the following research projects:

1.  Thermomechanical behavior of carbon-based nanomaterials

2.  Atomistic-to-continuum themomechanical theory in solids

3.  Mechanics of nanoporous and nanocrystalline metals

ARC and CRC APAI PhD Scholarships in Rail Engineering

The UCLA Fusion Science & Technology Center is seeking to fill several research staff positions to perform research in areas that include CFD, heat and mass transport, chemical processes, and/or structural mechanics. Research positions are available for beginning and mid-career levels.



Candidates should have a PhD degree in mechanical, nuclear, or chemical engineering with strong background in analysis, modeling, numerical computation, and/or experimental techniques. The research applications are in the area of fusion nuclear science and technology.

Vladimir Arnold died on 3rd of June 2010 in Paris, just 9 days before his 73rd birthday.

I am sure many mechanicians know him by his books, such as

As a consultant in computational mechanics, I currently help write some FEM-related code, and while doing this job, an episode from a recent past came to my mind. Let me go right on to the technical issue, keeping aside the (not so good) particulars of that episode. (In case you are curious: it happened outside of my current job, during a job interview.)



If you are a design engineer, FE analyst, researcher, or any professional dealing with stress analysis in your work, I seek answers to a couple of questions from you:





Question 1:

The Graduate School MUSIC (Multiscale Methods for Interface Coupling) invites to its first Summer School on Multiscale and Multiphysics Modelling of Interfaces at Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany, from 15 to 17 September 2010.